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Helene Schjerfbeck

(Finland, 1862-1946)
Estimate
3 500 000 - 4 000 000 SEK
311 000 - 355 000 EUR
324 000 - 370 000 USD
Hammer price
5 400 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Helene Schjerfbeck
(Finland, 1862-1946)

"Blå Madonna" (Blue Madonna)

Signed "d'après Greco" HS. Executed in 1943. Canvas 48 x 45.5 cm.

Provenance

Courtier Gösta Stenman, Stockholm.
Managing Director Simon Söderstam, Stockholm (acquired from the above at the exhibition, autumn 1944).
Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, Stockholm, "Premiärauktion. Skandinavisk konst före och efter sekelskiftet ur svenska samlingar", 7 May 1992, lot 38 (illustrated full page in colour in the catalogue).
Private collection, Stockholm (acquired at the above Sale).

Exhibitions

Stenmans Konstsalong, Stockholm, "Helene Schjerfbeck", 27 October - 17 December 1944, no. 106 (illustrated full page in the catalogue, Pl. 17).

Literature

H. Ahtela (alias Einar Reuter), "Helena Schjerfbeck", 1953, catalogued p. 371, no. 929.

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